Places the Neolithic of Brittany within its broader French and European context, discussing parallels with material from other regions, including Britain

Extensively illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and maps

Incorporates much new and previously unpublished research, to answer crucial questions about spectacular sites such as Carnac

Brittany has long been famous for its Neolithic monuments, which include the largest prehistoric standing stone ever to have been erected in Western Europe, and the spectacular Carnac alignments. How and by whom were they built? This fully illustrated study aims to answer those questions using the results of recent French research on these sites, along with the insights provided by the author's own field studies. The emphasis is on the landscape setting of these monuments, and how that landscape
may have influenced or inspired the construction of megalithic tombs and settings of standing stones. The development of the monuments is set within a chronological narrative, from the last hunter-gatherers of the late 6th millennium BC and the arrival of the first farmers, down to the end of the Neolithic period 3000 years later.

Readership: Scholars and students of prehistoric archaeology (especially of the Brittany region); of prehistoric religion and beliefs.

Chris Scarre, Professor of Archaeology, Durham University

"beautifully presented and right up to date ... the best introduction to English to its subject" - Times Literary Supplement

"This authoritative account of our current state of knowledge explores Breton monuments from the perspectives of landscape and materiality it offers Anglophone readers a valuable overview, highlighting how ideas have developed since the 18th century." - Alison Sheridan, British Archaeology

"Chris Scarres Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany provides a comprehensive account of recent work ... Overall it provides a splendid and up to date overview of this period from which so many fine
Breton monuments survive" - Frances Griffith, Devon Archaeological Society

"updated study, full of fresh ideas, which represents the best current survey of the subject in our language ... excellent" - Ronald Hutton, Time & Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture

1: The study of Neolithic Brittany
2: Peopling the landscape: perspectives from historical geography
3: All change please? The Neolithic transition in Brittany
4: The first monuments
5: The Carnac landscape
6: At the edges of the world: the Brittany passage graves
7: Bodies of evidence
8: Stone settings and sacred landscapes: three case-studies
9: The domestication of monuments: Brittany in the Later Neolithic
10: Power and place: connecting with the land

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